Refugees From Eastern Europe

A group of women and children following railway lines on the outskirts of Berlin in the hope of being picked up by a British train, 14th December 1945. They are survivors from a group of 150 refugees, who had left Lodz in Poland two months earlier, headed for the German capital. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, many of them ethnic Germans, left eastern Europe and made their way west, either fleeing the advancing Soviet Armies, or expelled by the authorities. (Photo by Fred Ramage/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)